[issue3799] Byte/string inconsistencies between different dbm modules

[Brett Cannon]

Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> added the comment:

I am re-opening this as a deferred blocker with a patch to document that
dbm implementations write out and return bytes, but that strings are
accepted and implicitly converted.

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priority: release blocker -> deferred blocker
status: closed -> open
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file12084/doc_dbm_strings.diff

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